Glove



(No Model.)

B. WHITNEY. GLOVE.

No. 577,938. Patnted Mar; 2, 1897.

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NITED STATES ATENT T FFroE.

EDMUND BARTON WHITNEY, OF GLOVERSVILLE, NEW YORK.

GLOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 577,938, dated March 2,1897.

Application filed November 24,1896. Serial No. 613,352. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDMUND BARTONWHIT- NEY, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Gloversville, in the county of Fulton and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gloves,of which the following is a specification, reference being had thereinto the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to the manufacture of gloves and mittens; and myobject is to avoid the usual waste of material removed from the palmportion for the insertion of the thumbpiece by utilizing this materialfor reinforcing the thumb-piece where it is sewed in said palm portion.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure 1 is a View of a portion of a glovepalm in proximity to thethumb, the thumb being shown in side elevation. Fig. 2 is a similar viewin plan; and Fig. 3 is a detail of the slit for the reception of thethumb, shown in connection with a separate piece.

In the drawings, 1 represents a portion of a glove-palm having outtherein a slit 2 in the form of a compound curve, or S-shaped, as shownplainly in Fig. 3. Two flaps 3 and 4 are thus formed, which are adaptedto be turned up at right angles when the slit is opened for theinsertion of the thumb-piece 5. This thumb-piece is sewed in the palm asin the ordinary glove, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The flaps 3 4, whichwhen the slit is opened assume substantially diametrically oppositepositions, are then sewed to the thumb-piece 5.

I am aware that it is not new to slit the palm of the glove for theinsertion of the thumb piece and to utilize the flap thus formed for areinforcing-piece; but in such cases, prior to my invention, a part ofthe palm portion is always removed or the thumbpiece is reinforced onone side only, but by my arrangement every particle of the material isused to strengthen the thumb and the reinforcements are placed to thebest advantage.

This invention may be utilized in connection with an ordinary glovewhere an independent reinforcing-piece is desirable. This constructionis illustrated in Fig. 3, in which a represents an oval piece ofmaterial having a central S-shaped slit cut therein. This piece isadapted to be placed around the thumb of the glove of ordinary make, thethumb entering the slit and having the flaps b sewed on opposite sidesthereof, as before described.

I claim as my invention An improved article of manufacture comprising aglove or mitten having a thumb, an S-shaped slit, reinforcing-flapsturned up from said slit and secured to opposite sides of said thumb,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

E. BARTON WHITNEY.

W'itnesses:

GEORGE O. Bonn, ZENAS B. WHITNEY.

